It was held at Kashikoshima Hoshoen in Mie and this is the 30th annual symposium. There were more than 300 participants and 192 presentations at this symposium. The topics of SITA includes Coding Theory, Cryptography, Communication Systems, Sequences, Quantum Information Theory, Shannon Theory, Data Compression, Information Security, Fundamentals of Information Theory, Signal Processing, Network Security, and so on. The popularity of sessions about Cryptography is especially high in this symposium.